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Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore

Image

Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore speaking to an unidentified man in military uniform. Crosby and Shore are both holding papers in their hands and smiling...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly and Dave Dexter

Image

Bob Eberly [née Bob Eberle], an unidentified man, and Dave Dexter seated at a table, looking down over music.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly with Pat Dexter and two others

Image

Bob Eberly leaning over Pat Dexter, sitting in the center with two unidentified white women at a restaurant dining table. The woman on the left is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Dave Dexter, Bob Eberly, and Helen O'Connell standing behind a microphone. Dexter is handing a record to an unidentified white man on the side. All...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell

Image

Bob Eberly, Dave Dexter, and Helen O'Connell standing shoulder to shoulder and smiling. Dexter is holding a record with the Capitol label and O...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Carolyn Grey and Shorty Sherock

Image

Singer Carolyn Grey sitting on a stool and looking at music while smiling with Shorty Sherock standing behind her playing trumpet. In front is an NBC...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dancers with piano accompaniment on stage

Image

An unidentified group of people, two of which are dancers, one pianist, and likely a singer, performing on stage.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis seated in a recording studio

Image

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis, unidentified white man, seated in a recording studio with two other unidentified white men and an...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dick Haymes kissing an unidentified woman

Image

A photograph from the side of Dick Haymes embracing and kissing an unidentified woman on an open street with buildings in the background. The woman is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante

Image

Dinah Shore and Jimmy Durante sitting at a piano and smiling at each other. Durante is playing the piano, wearing a dark suit and hat. Shore is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ed Dix lined up with four others

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Ed Dix (left) in a line in front of a microphone with four others (three white men, one white woman) and big band members behind them.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Ella Mae Morse and Frank Sinatra

Image

Ella Mae Morse and Frank Sinatra on a radio broadcast for the program "Jubilee." Morse is holding papers in one hand and resting her other arm on...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Ella Mae Morse and Johnny Mercer

Image

Ella Mae Morse and Johnny Mercer holding hands and embracing as though dancing in front of a patterned curtain. Morse is looking forward and smiling...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Evelyn Knight reading sheet music

Image

Evelyn Knight reading sheet music for "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" while leaning against a turntable. Knight is wearing a light colored dress...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Four Chicks and Chuck

Image

Publicity photo for the musical group Four Chicks and Chuck. All four women are wearing black dresses, standing and leaning in a semi-circle around...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Four Noteables

Image

Promotional photograph from the torso up of the Four Noteables. Warren Durrett (left) , an unidentified white man (center), and Jim Hammer (right) in...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Four Noteables performing with the Warren Durrett orchestra

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The Four Noteables performing on stage with the Warren Durrett Orchestra. They are comprised of an unidentified white man, Laura Webb, Durrett, and...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, and Bing Crosby

Image

Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, and Bing Crosby on a radio broadcast for the Armed Forces Radio Service. All three are standing behind a CBS microphone...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Group around an ABC microphone

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Five unidentified white people (four men and one woman) sing around an ABC microphone. One orchestra member can be seen at the lower left behind the...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Headshot of Laura Webb

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Headshot of Laura Webb looking off to the right. Printed text below reads: "A Banister Photo."

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Headshot of Myrna Lee Jones

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Headshot of Myrna Lee Jones in a dress, smiling with her head turned towards the camera. Photo is slightly out of focus, especially everything outside...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Headshot of unidentified woman

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Headshot of unidentified white woman in a dress, wearing earrings and a necklace. A blurry diamond pattern is visible behind her.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Headshot of unidentified woman

Image

Side portrait of unidentified white woman in dress, head turned and smiling towards the camera. Her hands are extended forward, resting on some sort...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Headshot of unidentified woman

Image

Headshot of unidentified smiling white woman wearing a jacket, along with earrings and a necklace.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Headshot of unidentified woman

Image

Headshot of unidentified white woman in a sweater, smiling and looking off to the left.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (43)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (15)
  • Ed Dix Collection (3)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (64)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (64)
  • Gelatin silver prints (64)
  • Portrait photographs (43)
  • Group portraits (38)
  • Snapshots (33)
  • Publicity photographs (30)
  • Postcards (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (61)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (27)
  • Women, White (25)
  • Men, White (23)
  • Jazz musicians, White (20)
  • Big bands (10)
  • African American jazz musicians (8)
  • African American women (7)
  • Microphone (7)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Actors (5)
  • African American men (5)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (5)
  • Band directors (4)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Composers (2)
  • Conductors (Music) (2)
  • Pianists (2)
  • Actresses (1)
  • Cellists (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Phonograph turntables (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (64)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (11)
  • Durrett, Warren (8)
  • Webb, Laura (5)
  • Dexter, Dave (4)
  • Eberly, Bob (4)
  • Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977 (3)
  • Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994 (3)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Fitzgerald, Ella (2)
  • Haymes, Dick (2)
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (2)
  • Kelly, Paula, 1920-1992 (2)
  • Morse, Ella Mae (2)
  • O'Connell, Helen (2)
  • Shaffer, Lloyd (2)
  • Block, Martin, 1903-1967 (1)
  • Brown, Ray, 1926-2002 (1)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (1)
  • Carlyle, Louise (1)
  • Cassidy, Beverly (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Dexter, Pat (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980 (1)
  • Eberle, Ray (1)
  • Edwards, Joan, 1919-1981 (1)
  • Eldridge, Roy, 1911-1989 (1)
  • Ennis, Skinnay (1)
  • Forrest, Helen (1)
  • Foster, Stuart (1)
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 (1)
  • Grey, Carolyn, 1922- (1)
  • Hanna, Phil (Singer) (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Johnston, Johnnie, 1915-1996 (1)
  • Jones, Myrna Lee (1)
  • Kilroy, Marilyn (1)
  • Knight, Evelyn (1)
  • McCall, Mary Ann (1)
  • Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976 (1)
  • O'Brien, Margaret, 1937- (1)
  • Phillips, Flip (1)
  • Sherock, Shorty, 1915-1980 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Young, Lester, 1909-1959 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (51)
  • 1941 (13)
  • (-) 1950 (64)

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